By Prensa Latina
Islamabad : The leader of Pakistani Muslim League N (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif insisted on Friday that President Pervez Musharraf must be tried and demanded his resignation; threatening to form a coalition government if demands are not met.
The PML-N became the second strongest political force in the country in the recent general elections after the Pakistani People’s Party (PPP) of assassinated Benazir Bhutto.
Sharif, who was defeated in 1999 when he was Musharraf’s prime minister, then military supreme chief, said he promised Bhutto’s widower, Asif Ali Zardari, now PPP leader, that he would cooperate in forming a government even if his group does not join it.
We will be part of the government when Musharraf stops being president, insisted Sharif in declarations to the press.
This new position of the PML-N leader complicates Zardari’s maneuvers to form a government since the PPP leader, under US pressure, was to reach an agreement with Musahrraf, who will be in power until 2011.
Zardari must try to convince Sharif to allow PML-N’s presentation at the ministerial group as part of a coalition government.
Meanwhile preparations continue to convoke the National Assembly before March 15.